Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Relatively stable place to work until there are layoffs. They will fire older workers because they are too expensive and the focus is always on the bottom line.

The last three years had 1% raises. You do not get rewarded for long-term employment.

Promotions, raises, and bonuses are not granted because there is no budget to invest in existing employees. This only happens to make hasty acquisitions that rarely work out.

Most acquirees figure out the long-term career potential is nil and move on, leaving "young'uns" to be assigned to the new new thing. This happens while firing all the seasoned engineers that could have helped integrate the project into HPE with greater insight and knowledge.

Stop firing seasoned talent. Honor the HP Way, respect employees for their potential. Go back to Bill and Dave's original model, where the business units were autonomous and controlled their own destiny.

Employees in acquired companies quickly realize they are only providing revenue to the company cash account for future acquisitions with no reward for the employees that made the business success for their formerly independent unit possible. Once their sales staff and development strategy is morphed into HPE, the product wallows and eventually is discarded in favor of something else.